Inherited from Early Medieval Latin wardāre.

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guardar (first-person singular present guardo, first-person singular preterite guardí, past participle guardat)

1. to keep
2. to order
3. to clean
4. (computing) to save

   Synonym: desar

• guàrdia
• guardià

• “guardar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “guardar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “guardar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “guardar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

guardar

1. to guard

• gardar

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin wardāre.

guardar

1. to protect, defend
2. to watch over
3. to keep
4. to hide

• aguardar

• Galician: gardar, guardar
• Portuguese: guardar

• Universo Cantigas - "guardar ~ gardar"

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese guardar, from Early Medieval Latin wardāre.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡwaɦ.ˈda(h)/

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• Hyphenation: guar‧dar

guardar (first-person singular present guardo, first-person singular preterite guardei, past participle guardado)

1. to save, keep, retain, preserve
2. to protect, defend
3. to put away (to put something in its usual storage place)
4. (computing) to save (to write a file to disk or other storage medium)

• “guardar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “guardar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin wardāre.

guardar

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) to look, look at, watch

• (Sursilvan) mirar
• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) vurdar

• (Vallader) guardar davo (“to look up, look for, search, seek”)

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin wardāre.

• IPA^(key): /ɡwaɾˈdaɾ/ [ɡwaɾˈð̞aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: guar‧dar

guardar (first-person singular present guardo, first-person singular preterite guardé, past participle guardado)

1. (transitive) to save (to store for future use)
2. (computing) to save (to write a file to disk or other storage medium)

   guardar un archivo ― to save a file

3. to keep

   Ha jurado guardarlo en secreto

   He has sworn to keep it secret

4. to order
5. to clean
6. to put away

   Guárdalo antes de que lo vean.

   Put it away before they see it.

• “guardar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025